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I show that Bolsonaro used the two countries in different ways and with conflicting purposes: While depicting Venezuela as a “threat” to Brazilian society and connecting his opponent, Fernando Haddad, with Nicol s Maduro’s regime in Venezuela (intoning, “Brazil cannot become a new Venezuela”), Bolsonaro treated the United States as a positive example of what his own administration would look like, linking his campaign to Trump’s administration and embracing “Make Brazil Great Again” as a motto. My hypothesis is that whether articulating foreign policy toward Venezuela or the United States, Bolsonaro’s electoral campaign weaponized social media in ways that created both foreign enemies and allies and forged new or tighter connections to Haddad’s and his own campaign. To explore these dynamics, I engage and put into dialogue literature on social media, fearmongering, and fake news, bodies of scholarship that have often remained isolated from one another. 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I show that Bolsonaro used the two countries in different ways and with conflicting purposes: While depicting Venezuela as a “threat” to Brazilian society and connecting his opponent, Fernando Haddad, with Nicol s Maduro’s regime in Venezuela (intoning, “Brazil cannot become a new Venezuela”), Bolsonaro treated the United States as a positive example of what his own administration would look like, linking his campaign to Trump’s administration and embracing “Make Brazil Great Again” as a motto. My hypothesis is that whether articulating foreign policy toward Venezuela or the United States, Bolsonaro’s electoral campaign weaponized social media in ways that created both foreign enemies and allies and forged new or tighter connections to Haddad’s and his own campaign. To explore these dynamics, I engage and put into dialogue literature on social media, fearmongering, and fake news, bodies of scholarship that have often remained isolated from one another. 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